ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

Evening Star, Issue 22233, 10 January 1936, Page 7

ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS

FATAL FALL FROM WINDOW. At the adjourned inquest into the death of Margaret Paterson, married, aged 70 years, who died in the Dunedin Hospital on December 31, having fallen on the previous day from an upstairs window of her flat at Port Chalmers, held this morning a verdict that death was due to shock and severe injuries received by the fall was returned by the coroner (Mr H. W, Bundle, S.M.). Sergeant Lean conducted the inquiry on behalf of tb« police. ■. Constable Mahon said that on the morning of December 30 last he was on duty in George street, Port Chalmers, and while walking along the street ho saw the deceased lying in a right-of-way. She said: “I have fallen and hurt my back.” She informed witness that she had not been sleeping well. She said she had seen lights through the window, and people were chasing her. The lights had beckoned her on, and she had fallen through tte open window. She held on to the sill of the window, but owing to weakness she'had to let go. Witness examined the flat in which the deceased lived, and found that it was locked from the inside. She was an old-age pensioner, and had seemed to worry since her husband had been taken to a hospital. The Magistrate stated that the cause of death was shock and severe injuries caused by the deceased falling from the window of her flat. CLOTHES ON BEACH.

A search which was made when Owen Sherwood, second refrigerating engineer of the Port Adelaide, failed to answer the calling of the ship’s roll before the vessel’s departure from New Plymouth for Auckland revealed a possible drowning accident. The only trace of the. missing man, found at a late hour last night, was nis discarded clothes lying on the beach. Sherwood left the vessel about 10.30 a.m. with the intention of swimming in the harbour. He was seen doing so. but has not been heard of since. Sherwood is a Yorkshireman, 21 years of age. RIGHT ARM LACERATED. A lacerated right arm was suffered by Vernor Winton, aged 22 years, when his motor cycle collided with a motor car at Hooper’s Inlet last night. The injured man, who resides at 74 Richardson street, was admitted to the hospital at 9.35. MAN ELECTROCUTED. While taking measurements for the installation of a new stator at Wairere Falls power-house, Francis Rosengravo Harvey, aged 50, married, was fatally electrocuted. He was standing behind a guard rail and taking measurements of the distance between it and the machinery, preparing for the installation of a new stator next Sunday. His assistant, Huia Boddington, saw him suddenly collapse. He was taken outside, but the application of resuscitation was unavailing. It is surmised that the folding boxwood rule he was using made contact with the electrified portion of the machine while his left hand,grasping the guard rail, effectively, earthed him.—Te Kuiti Press Associa* tion.